Phil Holleran
pholleran.bsky.social
Phil Holleran
@pholleran.bsky.social
Father, technologist, geographer, Minnesotan. Interests include: land use policy, software development processes, cartography, skiing, cooking, and bread baking.
Dear GOP corporate donors (overlords) -

Having buyers remorse yet? Realizing that plunging the country into a recession, cutting funding for the fundamental research and education system that have powered our (until recently) world-leading economy is a bad idea? ... 1/
April 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The local classic rock station “updated” its format to include songs from my youth (90s).

I’m not old, I’m “classic.”
April 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Business pet peeve: narrative content-laden presentation slides that should be a document / paper
February 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@techconnectify.bsky.social makes the case against our current era of the algorithmic internet in a far more elegant manner than I ever could.

Let's not surrender our agency to powers seeking to exploit us for profit and control.
February 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
With all the cuts to things like fundamental research, education, and alternative energy as well as escalating trade wars removing the country from the global community, President Musk is really doing a great job of ensuring the continued success of the Glorious Replic... of China.
February 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
One way to deal with the illegal immigrant taking over the gov't is to end the TSLA investment cult / bubble. Value it like a tech company and its P/E ratio falls from 198 to around 30 (GOOG is 27). Value it like a car company and it falls below 10.
February 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
TFW the recipe calls for room temperature butter and you start making a heat sink.
December 7, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Getting ready to buy at least one replacement computer before the likely tariffs kick in next year and having this regularly recurring thought.

"I'd gladly trade a few mm of thickness and grams of weight for user upgradeable/replaceable components." Stop soldering everything to the board, Apple!
November 12, 2024 at 7:54 PM
How have so many come to accept unsubstantiated hyperbole as fact? That my country has (re)chosen a leader who only speaks in terms of best/worst seems, in part, the result of a cultural aversion to nuance.

Have we reached peak clickbait society? or has this always been?
November 12, 2024 at 6:43 PM